File export size is much smaller from Affinity Publisher, without loss of image quality. I never wanted to choose the compressed option as I didn’t want to lose image quality. The file size when exporting out of Photoshop is big. It was easy to forget this extra step and sometimes I would end up making further design changes in the PDF file without realising it. I could get the Photoshop file back, I just had to remember to go back and re-open the original file, make edits and then re-save again. In Photoshop when I would save a file as a PDF it would turn that Photoshop file into PDF. So much easier to find things in your planner when all of the pages are numbered and especially handy for designing notebooks. So if you wanted, say, a landscape habit tracker for each month you could intersperse that between the portrait orientation pages. However Affinity allows you to have both page orientations in the same file. You can do both page orientations in both software. The table tool works basically the same as Microsoft Word (and is very quick to create printables). I always liked the table tool in Microsoft Word, but Microsoft Word lacked the design features I needed. In Affinity Publisher you can add multiple pages and you can also see a 2 page spread at once which is extremely helpful when making weekly and monthly spreads. It made it more time consuming to design and harder to align a 2 page spread. The biggest downside to Photoshop was the inability to do multiple pages in the one document. It’s only $85 AUD! And it’s a one time purchase not a subscription.īoth software are discounted for Black Friday sales at the moment. I felt that the price kept increasing but there weren’t many new features coming out each year, or at least not many new features that I would use for making planner printables.Īffinity Publisher is very affordable. The cost of the subscription service per year isn’t much cheaper than what it cost to outright purchase Photoshop CS6. For that reason I made the most of it and used Photoshop CS6 for 8 years until 2020 when I switched to it’s subscription based service. Many years ago back when I first start using it in 2012, Photoshop used to be a software you purchase outright and there was a discounted price if you were a student. I don’t use cloud storage anyway so save money by storing files on my computer and external hard drives. It’s cheaper to purchase Photoshop with Adobe’s photography plan which works out $171 AUD per year. Otherwise it’s $46 AUD per month (which works out to $552 per year). Photoshop Creative Cloud (CC) 2021 costs $343 AUD per year on its own, and you only get this price when you pay upfront. So they basically force you to upgrade to the latest version and there was no discount when upgrading from CS6 to Creative Cloud (CC). The support for older versions of Photoshop disappears when a new version comes out, and it’s a needle in a haystack trying to find a way to download older versions of the software from Adobe (let alone find your product key if you still have it). Newer laptops don’t have them… because they no longer need them. So when I upgraded my laptop to the 3rd one that I have today I had a slight problem: no disc slot. Back then you installed the software using a disc (I wonder if the younger people reading this blog have ever used a computer disc?!) and the software used up so much storage space on your computer. I started using it in 2012 (Photoshop CS6). Photoshop was first released around 1990 and has had many new versions come out since then. CostĪffinity Publisher was only released mid 2019. Here are the main reasons why I switched: Making printables: 10 Reasons Why I switched from Photoshop to Affinity Publisher 1. Photoshop is great for other things (I still use it to make pattern backgrounds for my printables, oversized wall calendars and a few other things), but I have now switched to Affinity Publisher for making planner printables. 2 page spreads, automatic page numbers, seeing the spreads side by side when designing, multiple pages in one document, a combination of both landscape and portrait page orientation in the same document etc.). However Photoshop has become more and more expensive over the years and there were certain types of printables I wanted to make that I couldn’t do easily in Photoshop (e.g. Given that I had already spent a few years learning how to use Adobe Photoshop and the cost of Adobe software isn’t cheap, I stuck with using Photoshop for making printables for quite some time. When I tried Indesign I found it clunky and overly complicated to use. Subscribe to my YouTube channel for more planner videosĪffinity Publisher is basically a cheaper (and in my opinion better) version of Adobe Indesign.
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